The ATCC provides a lot of information about the ethnicity of the originating person from which their cell lines are derived.
I think MDA-MB-468 cells are the most popular breast cancer cell line originating from an African-American. There are others like HCC70, MDA-MB-175-VII, and ZR-75-30, but I haven't read many breast cancer papers that deal with those.
The only prostate cancer cell line I know of originating from an African-American is MDA PCa 2b.
I sincerely wish you well in your efforts. Even though breast and prostate cancer disproportionately affects African-American women and men, the amount of cell lines originating from African/African-American/black individuals is not representative of that disparity.
Thank you so much Jason. I will check these cell lines out. I recently found some in the literature, but they were not commercially available. It is very hard to find AA tissues and cell lines.
Dear Ashly, you can also order from DSMZ ..... It is a good source of cell lines ... the website is: http://www.dsmz.de/ .... Good luck
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